Last week Small Child had his school sports day. His year group (being the youngest) will have their own sports day at some point, so he wasn't taking part in this one, but he was looking forward to going along to cheer on his friends in the older classes. The whole school had a picnic lunch together after the sports part was finished, so he needed a packed picnic to take with him. Of course we had to give it a sports day theme!
In this lunch Small Child had a cheese and marmite sandwich, decorated to look like a race track using an edible marker, animal food picks and a finish line I whipped up quickly from a strip of paper and a couple of cocktail sticks. On the side he had some German sausage slices, rolled and skewered on more animal picks (the spectators!), and some strawberries and red grapes, also decorated with animal pick 'spectators'.
He was hungry when he got home (he's going through a very hungry stage at the moment!) so I made him a quick snack at his request - a leftover homemade banana 'samosa' (a very successful little experiment I tried when using up some leftover filo pastry recently - sliced banana, sprinkled with a little cinnamon, wrapped in the filo pastry and baked in the oven for about 20 minutes), served with a silicone cup full of custard and some grapes skewered on food picks.
Rather unsurprisingly, it didn't last very long once my hungry boy got his hands on it!
Grace
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